The Last Effort of Dreams

Edited by Francesco Loriggio
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The Last Effort of Dreams ...

Earthly Pages

By Don Domanski
Edited by Brian Bartlett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, ...

By Word of Mouth

By Dennis Cooley
Edited by Nicole Markotic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other ...

Children of the Outer Dark

By Christopher Dewdney
Edited by Karl E. Jirgens
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining ...

Desire Never Leaves

By Tim Lilburn
Edited by Alison Calder
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition ...

The More Easily Kept Illusions

Afterword by Russell Morton Brown
By Al Purdy
Edited by Robert Budde
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and ’70s poet. The ...

Field Marks

By Don McKay
Edited by Méira Cook
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, ...

Before the First Word

By Lorna Crozier
Edited by Catherine Hunter
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...

Writing in Our Time

By Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject ...

Seeing in the Dark

By Pauline Butling
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural “dark” of Western thought. By blurring the axis between “light” and “dark,” she redefined in positive terms women’s subjectivity ...